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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Dependency Based Build
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 23, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Improve DBB zBuilder error message if .gitconfig is not UTF-8

DBB zBuilder can fail with the following error if .gitconfig contains characters that are not UTF-8:

org.eclipse.jgit.errors.ConfigInvalidException: Cannot read file /u/user1/.gitconfig
       at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileBasedConfig.load(FileBasedConfig.java:137)
       at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.UserConfigFile.load(UserConfigFile.java:101)
       at org.eclipse.jgit.util.SystemReader.updateAll(SystemReader.java:497)
       at org.eclipse.jgit.util.SystemReader.getUserConfig(SystemReader.java:393)
       at org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.FileRepository.<init>(FileRepository.java:162)
       at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileRepositoryBuilder.build(FileRepositoryBuilder.java:55)
       at com.ibm.dbb.utils.GitUtilities.getRepository(GitUtilities.java:498)

Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.ConfigInvalidException: Invalid line in config file
       at org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Config.fromTextRecurse(Config.java:1236)
 

This can happen depending on the codepage of the terminal emulation when command  "git config --global" is used.

For example with command like git config --global user.name "éric Döe"

 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Shabbir Moledina
    Aug 13, 2025

    This particular scenario is too specific and has too many variations for us to effectively address the "error reporting" concern and so unfortunately, this is not something we can do. However, we will be adding a new troubleshooting section in our documentation pages to address this specific scenario (and more as/if we encounter them).

    Any questions, let me know.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Jul 24, 2025

    This message gets triggered in Java 11/17 for this situation. The same situation in Java 21 will lead to a ' File is too large' message.

    Reply

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